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  <recipe>
    <head>
      <title>1990 1st Place Nut Crescents</title>
      <categories>
        <cat>Cookies</cat>
        <cat>Holiday</cat></categories>
      <yield>60</yield></head>
    <ingredients>
      <ing-div>
        <title/>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>2</qty>
            <unit>cups</unit></amt>
          <item>Unsalted softened butter or margarine</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>6</qty>
            <unit>tablespoons</unit></amt>
          <item>Confectioners' sugar</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>2</qty>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Egg yolks</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>4</qty>
            <unit>cups</unit></amt>
          <item>Flour, sifted before</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Measuring</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1</qty>
            <unit>cup</unit></amt>
          <item>Ground or finely crushed</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Almonds, pecans or walnuts</item></ing></ing-div>
      <ing-div>
        <title>TOPPING</title>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>2</qty>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Egg whites</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1</qty>
            <unit>cup</unit></amt>
          <item>Ground or finely crushed</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Almonds, pecans or walnuts</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty>1/2</qty>
            <unit>cups</unit></amt>
          <item>Granulated sugar</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Confectioners' sugar for</item></ing>
        <ing>
          <amt>
            <qty/>
            <unit/></amt>
          <item>Sprinkling</item></ing></ing-div></ingredients>
    <directions>
      <step>  Preparation time: 45 minutes Cooking time: 10 to 12 minutes
  
   1. Cream butter and confectioners' sugar in large mixer bowl until light
  and fluffy. Beat in egg yolks. Beat in flour and 1 c ground nuts until
  mixed. (Dough can be refrigerated up to several days; soften slightly
  before shaping cookies.)
  
   2. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Have ungreased baking sheets ready.
  
    3. For topping, beat egg whites lightly with fork in shallow dish until
  frothy. Mix 1 cup nuts and granulated sugar in separate shallow dish.
  
   4. Roll a generous teaspoon of the dough in the palm of your hands into a
  crescent shape. Dip top of crescent in egg white and then into nut-sugar
  mixture. Place crescents on baking sheets about 1 inch apart. Bake until
  bottoms are golden, 10 to 12 minutes. Cool on pan a few minutes, then
  transfer to wire racks to cool completely. Sprinkle lightly with
  confectioners' sugar before serving.
  
   This winning recipe is from Mila Tomisek of Chicago. She prefers to use
  unsalted butter, but says margarine can be substituted. The cookies are
  very fragile.   Mila first began baking these small, buttery,
  crescent-shaped cookies with her grandmother during World War I; today, at
  82, she still bakes them for her children and grandchildren. from the
  Chicago Tribune third annual Food Guide Holiday Cookie Contest December 13,
  1990
  Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #340
  
  From: Linda Place &lt;placel@worldnet.att.net&gt;
  
  Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 01:06:56 +0000
 
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